Reigning Tewaaraton Award winners Lyle and Miles Thompson, and their cousin Ty Thompson, highlighted the Iroquois national team's 27-man world championship roster when it was released on Monday.

The three Albany players will be competing to make the 23-man active squad for the FIL World Championships, which will be held in Denver this year from July 10-19.

Lyle and Miles are two of the four players representing the Onondaga Nation with the Iroquois, along with former Syracuse player Jeremy Thompson and former Onondaga Community College player Jerome Thompson Jr.

Also making the 27-man list were current Syracuse player Randy Staats, SU verbal commits Vaughn Harris and Warren Hill, and former SU players Brett Bucktooth, Sid Smith and Cody Jamieson.

The rest of the roster features an array of Central New York connections. Players such as Hill and Harris come from OCC, while others, such as goaltender Jeff White, are from Le Moyne.

The Iroquois are one of 28 teams competing in the event and one of six in the top division. They are joined by the United States, Australia, Canada, England and Japan.

The Iroquois were kept from participating in the last world championship in 2010 after England ruled the team could not enter the country using tribal passports and the Iroquois declined to accept American passports. The issue re-ignited sovereignty issues, involved then Secretary of State Hilary Clinton and was covered by The New York Times and other national media outlets.